City's Affordability Case Fails as Firefighter Pay and Benefits Reach $5.5M a Year
The City covered $1.55 million in back pay from money set aside since 2019, and will fund the higher ongoing wage and benefit costs for fire hall through taxation.
Through an arbitration process that ran for more than four years, the City of Owen Sound argued it couldn’t afford to pay its firefighters more. The arbitrator awarded the increases regardless.
The binding decision, handed down March 9, set the contract for the City’s full-time firefighters from Jan. 1, 2…
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